GD Calico Craft Parts - Nautical Frame

Welcome!

 I'm so excited and happy to be invited to the Calico Craft Parts Blog

 as a guest designer this month.
I was very impressed when I finally saw the amazing pieces from Calico Craft Parts in original.
They immediately reminded me of my time as a "woodworm" ;-)  

yes, I loved working with wood -  mainly scroll saw projects. 

Calico's wooden shapes are so filigree and I could never have done this with a jigsaw! And their natural shades are wonderful too. 

As you may already know I have a soft spot for the sea with all its wonderful and mysterious creatures, and when I saw the wonderful aquatic and marine wood shapes at the Calico Craft Parts shop I was immediately inspired to create a new mixed media home decoration piece.

 Before and After

My base was an old simple plastic frame, but I fell in love with it
because it looks like a store window or a TV, right?!

How I did it:

Calico Craft Parts wood shapes used:

Ship's Lantern

Bull Kelp

Galleon Boat Style 6

Ships Wheel Style 2

Crab Style 9 

Mini nautical motifs Style 2 

 

 I chose old book pages and black tissue paper in combination with white crackle paint and some brown shades from a Glimmer Mist spray. A very easy technique but I wanted a wonderfully neutral and more subtle background for the beautiful wooden shapes. I only used very few colours -  a patina green, black, white and a little bit neon green for a magical effect, because the Galleon boat reminded me of the 'Black Pearl'

(you know what I mean?)  Yes, I admit it : I'm a big fan of the Pirates of Carribean stories.

 

some close up's

I highlighted the crab and kelp with just some little pearls and used  transparent gel as glue

I used the untreated Ships Wheel as a base and added the Galleon Boat  for a 3D effect.

I love to combine the various sizes of the wood shapes to create layers!

sideview

At the end of the process I decided to make one of my favourite sayings the focal element, but that

may well be exchanged with a photo sometime.

Done!

I am not a person of many words, so I would like to say a heartfelt THANK YOU

for your invitation in the form of a small extra project on which I used

my absolute favourite among the Calico Craft Parts wood shapes:

the Leafy Sea Dragon 

in combination with the gorgeous

Seashell Pillar Frame ATC

Thanks for your visit! 

I hope this was a bit of inspiration for you!

I will return at the end of the month with a 

new, spooktacular project and I hope you will then stop by again  :-)

Happy crafting!

Kerstin